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Climate effects of payments
Published Mar 24, 2023Researchers at INDEK have received funds to study the climate impact of payment services
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New AI tools – threats and opportunities
Published Mar 23, 2023Since ChatGPT was launched on 30 November 2022, there has been intense debate about the risks of new AI tools. What will happen with teaching, homework, reports and home assessment at Sweden’s univers...
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Emerging digital platforms force waste management rethink
Published Mar 22, 2023Crowd-sourced waste disposal services push the legal and ethical boundaries on who should take care of our waste.
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Projects aim to eliminate waste from wastewater
Published Mar 21, 2023The demand for water treatment is increasing throughout the world – and so is the risk of waste. Today, water treatment processes aim to protect the environment from contaminants, while recycling all ...
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Sustainable energy consumption via boosting or nudging - what works best?
Published Mar 20, 2023"We are not as rational as we think but need help to make wise decisions in everyday life. That's why we need nudges, interventions that guide our decisions in a certain direction", says the nudge adv...
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Prize-winning research will develop the energy markets of the future
Published Mar 20, 2023Maximising social welfare and further integrating renewable energy sources into the energy system. This is the potential of two capacity calculation methods primarily focusing on facilitating the cros...
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Interdisciplinary PhD school discussed sustainable energy transitions
Published Mar 17, 2023Frauke Urban (INDEK) and Saman Nimali Gunasekara (EGI) organised a PhD Winter School on “Sustainable Energy Transitions – Technology and Management Perspectives” on 13 – 15 March 2023 at KTH.
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KTH researchers supporting hydrocarbons as refrigerants in heat pumps
Published Mar 16, 2023KTH researchers take the lead on Position Paper supporting hydrocarbons as refrigerants in heat pumps
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Yi Yang, Division of Applied Physical Chemistry
Published Mar 16, 2023Yi Yang’s doctoral thesis focuses on the design and synthesis of cost-effective catalysts used in fuel cells and water electrolyzers. “The electrolyzers and fuel cells are responsible for hydrogen pr...
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Sparking discussions on Industrial Transformation solutions during Science Week 2023
Published Mar 15, 2023Around 50 people discussed Industrial Transformation during one of the Science Week 2023 seminars in February, led by the KTH Industrial Transformation Platform Researchers' Network. One topic centred...
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3D printed parts in space no "rocket science"
Published Mar 15, 2023The competitive space industry is now into recycling and cost hunting. By reusing rocket engines and 3D print engine parts cost can be lowered, but how will the 3D parts affect the engines? Researcher...
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Bombed cities in Ukraine to become climate-smart when rebuilt
Published Mar 14, 2023Many cities in Ukraine have been bombed into ruins. A new EU initiative – UniCities, led by KTH – aims to support stakeholders in Ukraine in building competence to rebuild the cities, while also makin...
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Four codes that can change the future of energy use and cancer treatments
Published Mar 14, 2023Over the next four years, researchers at KTH will optimize four codes that can have significant impact on global energy use and the treatment of cancer patients. But competition is fierce between rese...
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KTH is strengthening future roads through the Swedish Transport Administration's major investment
Published Mar 06, 2023The future road network faces major challenges. Roads are worn out as a result of increasingly heavy traffic and climate change. Electric and self-driving vehicles require new road solutions. Now, the...
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Involving students a major goal of ongoing library energy research exhibition
Published Mar 06, 2023On 23 February, KTH Energy Platform and the KTH Library held a vernissage of the exhibition “Towards the energy of the future - the invisible revolution behind the electrical socket”. An inaugural pop...
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Improved wireless communication can boost launch of autonomous vehicles
Published Mar 06, 2023Collaboration with Princeton University merges machine learning with cellular networks, making cars safer and more energy efficient. Together with experts in machine learning and wireless communicatio...
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New research centre shaping the future of food
Published Mar 02, 2023KTH FOOD is a new research centre for sustainable and healthy food systems which aims to engage and align the education, research, and outreach competences at KTH towards a sustainable and healthy foo...
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Professor G. Kumar Venayagamoorthy gives a talk at KTH in September
Published Feb 28, 2023On 14 September 2023, G. Kumar Venayagamoorthy, Professor at Clemson University, will attend the KTH Digitalisation & Energy Platforms workshop “Data driven methods with energy applications”. The tent...
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“To carry on researching has been my lifeline”
Published Feb 24, 2023As the sirens howled, the windows in her apartment smashed and the university was bombed, Krystyna Heti and her mother fled Ukraine in early March last year. She is now a researcher at KTH in the fie...
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Saving energy – a mission for everyone at KTH
Published Feb 17, 2023KTH needs to save energy. KTH’s energy-saving measures and electricity consumption must also be reported to the Swedish Energy Agency on a regular basis, as per the government’s mandate in October 202...
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